Faire Square
| Faire Square | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Daytime  Nighttime | |||
| Appears in | Mario Party 6 | ||
| Availability | Default | ||
| Description | "Feeling lucky? Put it to the test in this festive town square!" | ||
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- “Welcome to Faire Square! Here at Faire Square, you can win coins and Stars playing games of luck! This isn’t a regular Star Space. You always buy Stars here instead! You can buy up to five Stars if you’ve got enough coins! Star prices change between day and night, so be sure to buy them when they’re cheap!”
- —Brighton, Mario Party 6
Faire Square is one of the boards in Mario Party 6. It is named after the phrase "fair and square". Faire Square's buildings are European fairy-tale style, while the board suggests a fall-theme fairground with jack-o'-lantern decorations, gift carts, clown-themed Orb huts, and games of chance or tricks. The background music for this board also invokes a festive, but subdued mood, as if the town is readying for a big event later.
The center of the board contains a fixed space that players can pass for an opportunity to receive up to 5 Stars. During the day, Brighton charges players 20 coins per Star. At night, Twila charges a random price after hitting a Dice Block. The prices are either 5, 10, 30, or 40 coins.
There are only four ? Spaces on this board:
- Landing on the one on the top-left building makes a broom fly out of the window and take the player to the center of the board. The player may land either one space before or one space after the area where Stars are purchased.
- The two ? Spaces on the top-right building force the player that landed inside the building and teleport them back to the start, from the central building.
- The ? Space at the top of the board starts a game of chance that involves all players. During the day, players give up ten coins each. Then, one by one, they choose the chimney which they think will produce the tallest plant. When all are picked, the plants reveal themselves, and the tallest plant gives the player that picked it all the coins that were put in the pot. At night, the game is the same, but players give up one Star each. The winner ends up with all the Stars given.
Other events include a Whomp that blocks a path in the middle of the board. This Whomp charges ten coins for any characters who wish to pass. The chest building at the left side of the board is a slot game on the Luck Wheel. Players can choose to pay coins to play. The price is 5 coins during the day, with small coin prizes, and ten at night, with higher coin prizes. Players that line up three treasure chests will get all the coins that were saved up from players' past payments (this is similar to the Koopa Bank from previous Mario Party games).
On the right side of the board is a hat shell game called the Star Shuffle. Players pay one Star to play. The Star is placed in one of the hats, and they will shuffle around for a while. During the day, there are three hats to choose from that shuffle slowly, and guessing correctly rewards the player with two Stars. At night, there are 6 hats that shuffle quickly, and if the player guesses correctly, they receive three Stars. If the player makes a wrong choice in either day or night versions, they lose that Star.
Spaces[edit]
| Type of Space | Number of Spaces |
|---|---|
 Blue Spaces |
45 |
 Red Spaces |
11 |
 ? Spaces |
4 |
 Duel Spaces |
3 |
 Miracle Spaces |
1 |
  DK or Bowser Spaces |
2 |
| Total of Spaces | 66 |
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Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | フォーチュンタウン[?] Fōchun Taun |
Fortune Town | |
| French | Quartier Fortuno[?] | Luck District | |
| German | Sternenplatz[?] | Star Square | |
| Italian | Corte Buonasorte[?] | Good Luck Court | |
| Spanish | Barrio del azar[?] | Neighborhood of Chance |
Notes[edit]
- When the player pays the Whomp to move out of the way, the sound effect to confirm the choice is played after the Whomp starts moving, rather than when selection has been made.
- In-game, the southeast corner of the board contains a DK Space or Bowser Space. Promotional screenshots of the board, however, show a Blue Space instead, seen in File:FSday.jpg and File:FSnight.jpg.
- Faire Square is featured in the nighttime part of the group promotional art of Mario Party 6. Buildings from Faire Square are also seen in the title screen.
